It has been a busy month for the group with the exhibition at East Riddleston Hall to dismantle, and members working to finish various projects, so it seemed better to combine the two meetings here. We were delighted to hear that East Riddleston Hall won the Yorkshire small visitor attraction of the year at the recent awards at the white Rose Centre. We hope our exhibition helped to sway the judges! , but more likely it is the fantastic work that Carla Weatherall and the staff and volunteers have put into the Hall.. ..While our exhibition was there, the visitors had the chance to contribute to a new rug wall hanging for the Hall. It will be interesting for visitors to see this, and compare it with the older rugs around the Hall.
So the exhibition that started over two years ago at the Bradford Industrial museum is now finally put to bed. We will have lots more lovely rugs by the time we decide to start on a new exhibit. As a result of the exhibitions and the then newly launched web pages, we have become widely known in Yorkshire, and sometimes around the world, and also have been able to introduce rug making to a whole host of new friends.
Make sure that you scroll right down through this months post, there are some lovely rugs all the way through.
Before going onto our meetings, I just want to include this lovely image. Researching on the internet, it popped up, and I asked David Farrar the photographer, if I might add it to our pages. He kindly agreed, and told me that it was taken some years ago at the Ironbridge Gorge heritage museum. The picture is his copyright. If you want to see his other work his address is www.davidfarrarphotography.com
I wonder who the gentleman who is demonstrating the rug making is?
Woodhorn Matters made candle mats for their Christmas exchange last year, and we are following their example this year. This photo was apart of the demonstration of how to make them. Please note they are not for real candles…we use the battery type.
With Christmas on its way, there was a smattering of wreaths and trees at our November meeting.
In November we practised making wool flowers to integrate with our hooking. They can be used with proddy shaped leaves and flowers. I already had one flower loom set by Ronco, but was delighted by the variety of implements that the group brought along to the meeting.
This is my finished cushion, the threads were all sun dyed in kilner jars over the summer months.
The next pictures are some of the flower looms and french knitting devices that can be used for making the flowers. I also found this web site that has fantastic ideas for flower centres,www.knitting-and.com/small-looms/ but just type in flower looms and french knitting into Google and a whole new world opens up…
Some of the above French knitting looms are waiting for their pins…
Plastic versions of the crazy daisy can be bought on the net.
We did not use practical embroiderer, but maybe somebody will incorporate the wool flowers from it in the future.
More on Workshops, two of our members went to the Reeth rug retreat this year. they worked with Jennifer Manuel. You can see her work at www.fishereyerugs.blogspot.com and also on the reeth web page.
This is one of the two purses, back and front.
There were also two knitted rugs, one in teeshirt material, the other in french knitted yarn.
and this braided in rug
We were also lucky enough to see this beautiful wall hanging inspired by a Marc Chagall stained galss window .
and this first hooked rug of Salts Mill. There is a band of autumn heather running behind the mill.
and this seascape in Northumberland.
This shirred rug was inspired by an old rug stencil.
